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(Entry was posted by Atish Hemade on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 06/17/2016).

A lot of images are not indexed by Google

Hi all,

We have a e-commerce Magento site with over 1000`s of products and images. (around 20, 000 pages)
But a lot of images are not indexed by Google.
When we searched in google images as site:example.com hardly a few images are indexed like 20 odd images. The image source path is from media.example.com.
Some image examples-
http://media.example.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/233x/9df78eab33d525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/_/2_2_1.jpg
http://media.example.com/media/wysiwyg/b6799ppl_1_.jpg

We have provided alt and image title tags, still no results.Checked in google search console of media.example.com, it says images are indexed.

Now we have disallowed the following in robots.txt
Disallow: /media/customer/
Disallow: /media/dhl/
Disallow: /media/downloadable/
Disallow: /media/import/
Disallow: /media/pdf/
Disallow: /media/sales/
Disallow: /media/tmp/
Disallow: /media/xmlconnect
Is this by any chance causing any trouble.

Secondly preferred URL on search console is set to www.example.com - Is this anything to do with the indexing issues.


Please help. Let me know if more information is required?
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  • Atish Hemade: Hi all,

    We have a e-commerce Magento site with over 1000's of products and images. (around 20,000 pages)
    But a lot of images are not indexed by Google.
    When we searched in google images as site:example.com hardly a few images are indexed like 20 odd images. The image source path is from media.example.com.
    Some image examples-
    http://media.example.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/233x/9df78eab33d525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/_/2_2_1.jpg
    http://media.example.com/media/wysiwyg/b6799ppl_1_.jpg

    We have provided alt and image title tags, still no results.Checked in google search console of media.example.com, it says images are indexed.

    Now we have disallowed the following in robots.txt
    Disallow: /media/customer/
    Disallow: /media/dhl/
    Disallow: /media/downloadable/
    Disallow: /media/import/
    Disallow: /media/pdf/
    Disallow: /media/sales/
    Disallow: /media/tmp/
    Disallow: /media/xmlconnect
    Is this by any chance causing any trouble.

    Secondly preferred URL on search console is set to www.example.com - Is this anything to do with the indexing issues.


    Please help. Let me know if more information is required
  • Jordan Lowry: Have you made a secondary sitemap dedicated to images by chance?
  • Atish Hemade: Yes I have mentioned above -
    media.example.com and skin.example.com
  • Atish Hemade: Oh..so sorry you mentioned image sitemap -- Nope

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 06/17/2016).